Used Quotes

Fashion is about today and tomorrow. Nobody cares how good you used to be

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

Win as though you were used to it, and lose as if you like it.

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can.

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead.

Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference.

I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won't get you everything you want. You need more than just passion and hope. It's important to do what I'm good at and suits me.

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

We used to think that everything started in the lab. Now we realize that everything spins off the consumer.

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.

When a city is inundated with water, the water will move in all of the streets. Every pathway that has been made will be used. It doesn’t matter the reason of its making.

Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier.

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.

The man who is going through with God to be used in healing must be a man of longsuffering.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

You ever dip your biscuit in your tea and it breaks. I swear now, you never get used to that.

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.